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I am a high school English teacher, and recently I’ve been making a lot of collaborative collage poems with one of my classes. We all write for 5 or 10 minutes on the same prompt. Then, we all read aloud our poems. While the kids read, I write down a line or two that strikes me from each of their poems. Then I read aloud the resulting collage poem. The prompt for this one was “What can a poem be?”
I love the surprise at the end, when we hear everyone’s words put together. And I love the strange and fresh weirdnesses that come out of stitching their snippets together.
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We do a “question of the week” every week (that has nothing to do with work). This week, someone asked that each of us write a line for a poem. One person started it then tagged another person to write the next line… it was a fun time.
Apr 1, 2025
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Im reading a lot of poetry to inspire me to write some new lyrics
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went on a date the other night to a literature event abt wetlands/nature/us and made this lil collage afterwards based on this lovely quote from a poem we heard read (the poets are Audley Anderson + Haz Lugsdin)
Feb 26, 2024
